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High Dose Chemotherapy (HDC) with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) or Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) for Breast Cancer (2004) Excerpt: Standard chemotherapy doses used to treat cancer are often unable to completely eradicate all of the cancer cells. Chemotherapy dosages that are high enough to eradicate cancer cells also destroy the patient’s healthy bone marrow stem cells, which are the progenitors of many types of blood and immune cells.  Hotline Literature SearchesThe Custom Hotline Service delivers answers to your questions about medical technology in as few as five business days. Each Custom Response includes a technology overview prepared by the same doctoral-level research analysts that develop ECRI Institute's comprehensive technology assessment reports as well as hyperlinked literature searches of published peer-reviewed literature, gray literature, and standards and guidelines provided by ECRI Institute's team of medical librarians and information specialists. |
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